Dozens of special young visitors were at West Seattle Food Bank headquarters this morning – to celebrate something they helped create: Listening to Food Bank executive director Fran Yeatts are Lakeside School sixth-graders who collaborated with West Seattle Elementary fourth-graders to create new mosaics unveiled today – here’s a closer look:

The art celebration is part of a big, busy springtime for the food bank – the annual Instruments of Change benefit is just a month away, and the WS Food Bank has news about that:

The West Seattle Food Bank would like to send a very big thank you to all that have signed on as sponsors for the Instruments of Change fundraiser coming up on Friday, May 6th, 2011 at The Hall at Fauntleroy.

The Food Bank has received its largest single sponsorship to date from Jackson, Morgan & Hunt [WSB sponsor]. The West Seattle accounting firm has generously signed on as a $5,000 “Community Humanitarian” sponsor. Charles Morgan CPA, Managing Partner, stated they upped their sponsorship because we know that a lot more people are having to use the food bank’s services.

Last year families visited the agency 37,396 times, a fifty percent increase in the past several years. “We are very grateful to Jackson, Morgan & Hunt and all the other sponsors (including WSB) that are helping to make this event a success,” said WSFB Executive Director Fran Yeatts.

King County Executive Dow Constantine is the keynote speaker at this 4th annual Instruments of Change – the West Seattle Food Bank’s largest fundraising event of the year. The event also features a cocktail hour, live music and a Dessert Dash.

Tickets are selling fast. Those interested in buying event tickets or being an Instruments of Change sponsor can contact Anna Guitchounts at 206-932-9023 or at anna@westseattlefoodbank.org. Individual tickets are $75 and sponsorship levels begin at $500. Individual tickets can also be purchased through brownpapertickets.com at .

To see the full list of generous sponsors to date and get more information about the event, visit http://www.westseattlefoodbank.org/IOC2011A.asp.